(Pilger) – This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain. Read the rest of this entry »

(MSNBC) – October 15th, 2011 – Protests outside London Stock Exchange and in Rome heat up. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was among much anticipated speakers at mass protest in London calling for end to war in Afghanistan and foreign troops pullout. RT managed to talk to him about the military interventions and the Libyan conflict in particular. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – There Are More Slaves Today Than At Any Point In Human History

You would assume that – as messed up as things may be today – at least there is not widespread slavery, as in ancient Egypt or the American south.

But as Time Magazine noted last year:

Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history. Slaves are those forced to perform services for no pay beyond subsistence and for the profit of others who hold them through fraud and violence. While most are held in debt bondage in the poorest regions of South Asia, some are trafficked in the midst of thriving development.

To help fight slavery, read this and – more importantly - get involved here.

And given that there are some who would like to put all of us in debt peonage, we should stand up for freedom and justice whenever and wherever you can. – Source: Washington’s Blog

(ActivistPost) – Police State Roundup: 15 Reasons Why I Choose Not to Live in the USSA

I left the United Soviet States of Amerika (USSA) five years ago and never looked back. Upon discovering that government forces executed what I learned was a “false flag operation” (thank youLoose Change), that the economy was one giant Ponzi scheme (thank you G. Edward Griffin) and that there truly did exist a movement for totalitarian world government mirroring Biblical depictions (thank you Alex Jones), I figured I had some soul-searching to do. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – In the former Soviet Union, dissidents were sent to mental institutions for the crime of disagreeing with the state. For the communists, opposition to totalitarianism was a mental disease. After the Soviet Union collapsed, governments of the Russian Federation continued the practice of diagnosing activists and journalists as insane. Enemies of the state in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and elsewhere in the communist world were also forcibly interned in state mental institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (RawStory) – Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release – Read More Here

(BBC) – Wikileaks’ media partners have strongly criticised the whistleblower group’s decision to release its entire archive of US cables uncensored.

Wikileaks says all 251,287 of the leaked diplomatic cables are now online in a searchable format. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to a forum at the Splendour in the Grass music festival in Queensland Friday, saying that the current generation was “burning the mass media to the ground.”

“We are becoming the agents of perspective,” he said. “This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – The News Corporation-owned Wall Street Journal blasted “self-appointed media paragons” who were quick to attack the British tabloid News of the World but not the release of classified information by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks.

The tabloid, also owned by News Corp., closed down after an investigation revealed it had participated in the phone hacking of celebrities, British politicians, the families of terrorist attack victims, dead soldiers and others. Read the rest of this entry »

(PrisonPlanetLive) – Julian Assange may be about to address concerns over his comments last year that 9/11 truth was a “false conspiracy” which he found “annoying”. Assange made the statement despite Wikileaks’ 2009 release of half a million pager messages on the day of 9/11 from New York City officials, many of which contradicted the official story. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – In an interview produced by Millar Grattan Media, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims that the United State’s response to his organization’s activities has been the most severe reaction since the McCarthy era.

“The United States has brought out to the public an extremely aggressive response,” he said. “In private, it is also doing other things. That response has been the most aggressive response to an international publisher ever.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – In a behind the scenes interview tape between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and PBS Frontline’s Martin Smith, Assange claims that WikiLeaks’ mission is not to destroy the U.S. government, but to expose government cover-ups.

RELATED: Assange: Obama looks to ‘put a chill across all investigative journalism’

“What we mean about conspiracy is simply people getting together in private to make plans to do something that the public would be outraged against,” Assange said. “They keep it in private because the public would oppose it. And if the public finds out about it and opposes it before it’s implemented, then chances are it won’t be implemented.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known. The publication of confidential cables proved deeply embarrassing for the US and other countries.

“If we look at our work over the last 12 moths, think about that. All these stories that have come out actually happened in the world, before 2010, but people didn’t know about it. So what is it that we don’t know about now? There’s an enormous hidden world out there that we don’t know about. It exists there right now.” Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team confirmed. If this is unsuccessful, he will be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (SecrecyNews) – Accessing WikiLeaks Violates Espionage Act, USAF Says – Read More Here

(DailyMail) – Julian Assange fears he could be taken against his will to the United States and executed if he is extradited to Sweden, his legal team said.

Lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder have asked the Australian government to request assurances from their Swedish counterparts that he would never be removed from their country. Read the rest of this entry »

(RedactedNews) – To the Editor:

RCFP Feb 2010 Edition for this article –
It was with deep dismay that I saw that the Rock Creek Free Press had chosen to name Julian Assange as its Man of the Year. The celebrity of Assange and WikiLeaks represents a large CIA covert operation. You do not debate a CIA covert operation or engage in a dialogue with it. You unmask it and try to shut it down. This goal is not served by making Assange Man of the Year. Further: your newspaper has deep roots in the old 9/11 truth movement, and Assange is a self-declared enemy of 9/11 truth. Read the rest of this entry »

(WeAreChangeNJ) – Julian Assange has condemned 911Truth, WikiLeaks has revealed nothing new and in fact has allowed for a total surveillance state takeover of the web. James Gourley, on the other hand, has sued the government for 9 years worth of censored videos, revealed bombshell evidence, smoking guns, cover-ups, and has blown wide open one of the biggest crimes ever carried out and never to have been properly investigated. Read the rest of this entry »

(NewStatesman) – The “technological enemy” of WikiLeaks is not the United States, but China, according to Assange.

“China is the worst offender” when it comes to censorship, says the controversial whistleblower. “China has aggressive and sophisticated interception technology that places itself between every reader inside China and every information source outside China. We’ve been fighting a running battle to make sure we can get information through, and there are now all sorts of ways Chinese readers can get on to our site.” Read the rest of this entry »

(BeforeItsNews) – Is the Espionage Act a good law? As various prominent members of our government and media add their voices to those calling for charging Julian Assange and The New York Times under the Espionage Act, it’s important to remember and not repeat the Act’s ugly past. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The shocking WikiLeaks release, which has revealed thousands of unreported civilian casualties in Iraq, is the most accurate picture of war ever made, and it is food for thought, says the website’s editor-in-chief. The report, condemned by the Pentagon, claims that US commanders in Iraq ignored evidence of torture and the murder of civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – A top Swedish prosecutor said on Wednesday she was reopening an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks published more than 70,000 secret military files on Afghanistan in July in what U.S. officials have called one of the biggest security breaches in U.S. military history.

Assange has denied the charges, which a lower official had withdrawn two weeks ago, and said he has been warned by Australian intelligence that he could face a campaign to discredit him after leaking the documents.

Neither Assange nor his lawyer could be immediately reached for comment.  Read entire article

(BusinessInsider) – Are you confused about this weekend’s bizarre incident which saw WIkileaks founder Julian Assange get charged with rape in Sweden, only to have the charges revoked a few hours later?

You should be, because it makes no sense whatsoever.

And this Al-Jazeera interview (via @midasoracle) with a spokesperson from the Swedish prosecutor’s office won’t help at all. In fact, it will only make you more suspicious, as the spokesperson tries to claim that no mistakes were made, and that the revocation of the charges were normal procedure, resulting from more information coming to light.

Watch. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been clear for some time that the Pentagon would love to put a bullet in Julian Assange’s brain. But as the founder of WikiLeaks became better known, sending off a team of professional hitmen–as is their wont–threatened to become bad PR. So phony sex charges are used instead, another typical tactic of the regime. BTW. a word to the disinfo artists of the military junta: we don’t believe you about Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Georgia, Russia, China, Israel, Palestine, Iran, or Assange.

UPDATE: So now the Pentagon’s trumped up charges against Julian Assange have been dropped, if not before the libel was implanted in at least some minds. Watch for more lies, not that they will work. One man can beat the Death Star. – Source: Lew Rockwell

See Also:

(BusinessInsider) – Swedish Prosecutors Drop Rape Charges Against Wikileaks Founder

Stranger and stranger.

Now according to the AP, the rape charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have been withdrawn.

Prosecutors say the suspicioun was unfounded.

How these charges came to be, and then got reversed so fast, should be an interesting story. – Source: Business Insider

Also:

(Telegraph) – “Is Assange the target of a U.S. smear campaign?” – Rape Claim Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Withdrawn

Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks website, was at the centre of an extraordinary “dirty tricks” row today after the Swedish government issued and then withdrew an arrest warrant against him for rape. Read the rest of this entry »

Wikileaks founders Julian Assange sought by Swedish police. Read More Here

See also:

(FreeRepublic) – Julian Assange Denies Charges of Rape – Read More Here

(France24) – WikiLeaks founder Assange wanted in Sweden for rape – Read More Here

(BBC) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape – Read More Here

(DigitalJournal) – Wanted! Julian Assange accused of rape – Read More Here

More Info @ Twitter.com/Wikileaks

(RawStory) – Following the release of 92,000 war log files, Liz Cheney is calling for WikiLeaks to be shut down and says that the founder has “blood on his hands.”

“I would point out that although you’ve got the news about the WikiLeaks documents that that came out this week and clearly Julian Assange’s effort was to change course for the US policy in Afghanistan,” Cheney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday.

“He was unsuccessful in that. He does clearly have blood on his hands potentially for the people whose names were in those documents who helped the US and I think that’s something he will have to live with now,” she continued. Read the rest of this entry »

(Gigaom) – WikiLeaks, the crusading anti-secrecy organization that just published 90,000 pages of secret government documents about the war in Afghanistan, has gotten a lot of attention for its campaign to become the world’s repository of whistle-blowing and embargo-busting information, and leader Julian Assange has become the star of the political talk show circuit. But the most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and the release of the secret Afghan documents isn’t the details of the U.S. campaign — it’s what the incident says about the evolution of a truly distributed and dis-aggregated new media ecosystem. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex welcomes back to the show Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament and poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and internet pioneer. She is an active volunteer for Wikileaks. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex welcomes back to the show Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament and poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and internet pioneer. She is an active volunteer for Wikileaks. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with author, journalist, speaker and radio talk show host Webster Tarpley about the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents and the latest developments on the coming conflict with Iran. Tarpley is the author of Obama: The Postmodern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both available at Alex’s Infowars store. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with author, journalist, speaker and radio talk show host Webster Tarpley about the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents and the latest developments on the coming conflict with Iran. Tarpley is the author of Obama: The Postmodern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both available at Alex’s Infowars store. Read the rest of this entry »

Wikileaks editor interview on censorship. Read the rest of this entry »

Wikileaks editor interview on censorship. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website

Soldier Bradley Manning said to have leaked diplomatic cables to whistleblower, plus video of US troops killing Iraqis Read More Here

(NewYorker) – No Secrets – Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency. – Read More Here

(TheDailyBeast) – Pentagon Manhunt

Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: “Assange is in Some Danger.” Read More Here

(Rense) – Targeting Whistleblowers – Truth Telling Endangered – Stephen Lendman

On April 16, journalist John Cole wrote:

“The message is clear – you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted.”

In fact, it’s worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of their guilt. But leaking it risks criminal prosecution for revealing state secrets and endangering national security. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – Daniel Ellsberg, who gained fame when he leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 in hopes of ending the Vietnam War, told MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan on Friday that he not only sees a parallel between himself and the person who recently leaked a video of an assault by US forces on Iraqi civilians but also fears for the safety of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who published the video. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyBeast) – Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports.

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast. Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – Bloodthirsty neo-cons who would defend barbecuing Arab babies on the White House lawn if they were told it was part of the “war on terror” are disgracefully scrambling to defend a shocking video released by Wikileaks which shows U.S. Apache helicopters massacring Iraqi journalists and children in Baghdad while laughing about it. Read the rest of this entry »